A. Don’t despair; chair-caning is not a lost art. There are two kinds of caning, says Cathryn Peters, who runs a Web site dedicated to seat weaving and wicker repair (wickerwoman.com). The original ...

WESTFIELD – From caning chairs to hosting craft classes, the owners of the Seat Weaver have continued an upward climb in success that prompted a move to a bigger location just a year-and-a-half after ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Liz Cottrell, a Tiverton English teacher by day, turned her penchant for chair caning into a side business. Caning is the method — and lost art some would argue — of hand ...

A detail shot of a finished handwoven rush seat for a chair restored by Louise Herriott at her home in Dallas on Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Louise Herriott does caning and makes handwoven rush seats ...

This story couldn’t begin without telling you first of the craftsmanship that Sheldon Stowe has for caning (a method of weaving chair seats and other furniture). Caning is a craft that has been done ...

Many people know the ups and downs of retirement. Steve Ambrose, 68, knows the overs and unders as he repairs woven cane chair seats. Working out of his garage in the Avenues area in the west end of ...

Seat weaving is time-consuming, meticulous work, but Fred Goff, a retired operator of heavy construction equipment, loves every minute he spends caning chairs. “Cane” is the generic term for the hard ...

Lin Golombosky never planned on caning chairs for a living. The Willington resident had worked for 10 years as a union carpenter, a job she describes as the best years of her life. As time passed, ...